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Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 150.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 75.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Response: 0.5.
Need For and Use of Information:
This survey is used to locate, for
monitoring purposes, rural residents,
home gardens, and milk animals within
a five-mile radius of a nuclear power
plant. The monitoring program is a
mandatory requirement of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission set out in the
technical specifications when the plants
were licensed. The ICR previously
approved by OMB expired on January
31, 2023.
Rebecca L. Coffey,
Agency Records Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023–08831 Filed 4–26–23; 8:45 am]
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Rebecca L. Coffey,
Agency Records Officer.
Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA).
ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of
information collection reinstatement
approval request to OMB.
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[FR Doc. 2023–08832 Filed 4–26–23; 8:45 am]
AGENCY:
Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA) provides notice of submission of
this information clearance request (ICR)
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The
general public and other federal
agencies are invited to comment. TVA
previously published a 60-day notice of
the proposed information collection
reinstatement for public review
February 22, 2023 and no comments
were received.
DATES: The OMB will consider all
written comments received on or before
May 30, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments for the
proposed information collection
reinstatement should be sent within 30
days of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function.
SUMMARY:
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Title of Information Collection:
Employment Application.
OMB Control Number: 3316–0063.
Current Expiration Date: 4–30–2023.
Frequency of Use: On occasion.
Type of Affected Public: Individuals.
Small Businesses or Organizations
Affected: No.
Federal Budget Functional Category
Code: 455.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 14,475.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,185.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Response: 0.2.
Need For and Use of Information:
Applications for employment are
needed to collect information on
qualifications, suitability for
employment, and eligibility for
veteran’s preference. The information is
used to make comparative appraisals
and to assist in selections. The affected
public consists of individuals who
apply for TVA employment.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with
minor modification, of a previously
approved information collection for
which approval has expired.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Regulations Governing Certain
Positive Train Control System Outages
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The purpose of this notice is
to inform the public about FRA’s
regulations that currently govern certain
outages of positive train control (PTC)
systems during, for example,
infrastructure upgrades and capital
projects. This notice also contains
information about the process a railroad
must follow to obtain FRA’s approval
before temporarily disabling its PTC
system for such purposes.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
technical questions, please contact Gabe
Neal, Staff Director, Signal, Train
Control, and Crossings Division,
telephone: 816–516–7168, email:
Gabe.Neal@dot.gov. For legal questions,
please contact Stephanie Anderson,
Attorney Adviser, telephone: 202–834–
0609, email: Stephanie.Anderson@
dot.gov.
SUMMARY:
By law,
PTC systems must govern operations on
PTC-mandated main lines, which
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currently encompass approximately
58,000 route miles, and include Class I
railroads’ main lines over which poisonor toxic-by-inhalation hazardous
materials are transported and any
railroads’ main lines over which
intercity or commuter rail passenger
transportation is regularly provided.1
Previously, FRA’s regulations
permitted railroads to temporarily
disable PTC systems where necessary to
perform PTC system repair or
maintenance.2 That temporary
flexibility expired, by regulation, on
December 31, 2022.3 Under that
temporary provision, railroads were
required only to notify to FRA; seeking
FRA’s approval was not necessary.
FRA appreciates that several types of
PTC systems can be upgraded
seamlessly, without necessitating an
interruption of PTC system service. FRA
also recognizes, however, that in limited
cases, even those types of PTC systems
might experience temporary outages for
a short period during certain
infrastructure upgrades.4 In addition,
FRA understands that the design of
certain PTC systems, including the
Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement
System II on the Northeast Corridor,
may require more extended periods of
outages to facilitate ongoing capital
projects. FRA expects that, in such a
case, a railroad would schedule the
temporary disabling of its PTC system
for the time posing the least risk to
railroad safety and for the minimum
time necessary to complete the capital
project and recommission its PTC
system.5
As noted above, 49 CFR
236.1029(g)(3) previously permitted
railroads to temporarily disable their
PTC systems, with just notification to
FRA; however, that provision expired
on December 31, 2022, and is therefore
no longer available for railroads to
utilize. Now, if a railroad needs to
disable its PTC system temporarily for
maintenance or upgrade purposes, a
railroad must obtain FRA’s approval
under 49 CFR 236.1021,
Discontinuances, material
modifications, and amendments, before
temporarily disabling its PTC system or
1 Title 49 United States Code (U.S.C.) 20157; Title
49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 236.1005(b),
236.1006(a). This requirement does not apply,
however, to a railroad’s controlling locomotives that
are subject to either a temporary or permanent
exception under 49 U.S.C. 20157(j)–(k) or 49 CFR
236.1006(b).
2 49 CFR 236.1029(g)(3).
3 Id.
4 For example, FRA is aware of multiple railroads’
electrical infrastructure upgrade projects that
involved disabling the PTC system for a maximum
period of four hours.
5 See 49 CFR 236.1029(g)(3)(ii), 236.1033(f).
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of information collection
reinstatement approval request to OMB.
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SUMMARY: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provides notice of submission
of this information clearance request (ICR) to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The general public and other
federal agencies are invited to comment. TVA previously published a 60-
day notice of the proposed information collection reinstatement for
public review February 22, 2023 and no comments were received.
DATES: The OMB will consider all written comments received on or before
May 30, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments for the proposed information collection
reinstatement should be sent within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with minor modification, of a
previously approved information collection for which approval has
expired.
Title of Information Collection: Employment Application.
OMB Control Number: 3316-0063.
Current Expiration Date: 4-30-2023.
Frequency of Use: On occasion.
Type of Affected Public: Individuals.
Small Businesses or Organizations Affected: No.
Federal Budget Functional Category Code: 455.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 14,475.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,185.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per Response: 0.2.
Need For and Use of Information: Applications for employment are
needed to collect information on qualifications, suitability for
employment, and eligibility for veteran's preference. The information
is used to make comparative appraisals and to assist in selections. The
affected public consists of individuals who apply for TVA employment.
Rebecca L. Coffey,
Agency Records Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-08832 Filed 4-26-23; 8:45 am]
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